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by vortegne 52 days ago
Let's not praise a professional domain squatter for his ethics. I don't understand how this guy isn't getting laughed out of the room?
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Mind clarifying?

Also discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47924178

Sure. He talks about owning a bunch of domains, trawling domain auctions all the time, earning money passively via parked domains. That's just literally what domain squatting is. Buy up domains, put ads on them, hope for people to hit the domain randomly or promote it in some ad network. No value is being created. He's generating money by being a net negative. He should be fined and banned from every owning a domain. Sadly, ICANN does not care and/or profits from it.